
Search engines, such as Google, could become exempt from possible copyright infringement under amendments tabled to the Digital Economy Bill by Conservative peer Lord Lucas.
Lord Lucas has proposed a specific change to the bill saying publishers of websites, including those owned and run by newspaper companies, should be presumed to give open access to search engines – unless they otherwise implement technology to block those sites indexing for listings.
His amendment, called Protection of search engines from liability for copyright infringement, states: “Every provider of a publicly accessible website shall be presumed to give a standing and non-exclusive license to providers of search engine services to make a copy of some or all of the content of that website, for the purpose only of providing said search engine services …
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